where do I start. On the way to the club was preparing myself to go out cat rig for the first and my crew decides that he wants to go for a sail.
Got to the club and rigged the boat up sloop then 10 mins before briefing he gets a call out for work so down came the headsail and raked the mast back a bit and was ready to go out and race.
This is where it gets interesting. Got out there and found the wind to be alot stronger than I expected, but still kept with the same rig settings. Trying out the steering to make sure I got rid of last weeks problem I missed the start, then when I did get going I found myself catching the other boats really quickly thats when capsize number 1 happened. Got passed all the boats that had passed me while I was capsized and went round the 1st bouy. The next leg was a reaching leg and had no problems to bouy number 2. Got to bouy number 3 and found a capsized boat in front of me so I decided to tack a little bit earlier than what I would of like but when I moved the tiller nothing happened, when I looked down at my tiller I found it broken so here I am powering straight for this upside down boat with no steering so Unfortunatly had to capsize it again to avoid a serious collision.
Welcome to the 06/07 race series.
I think my main problem was that I think I didnt rake the mast back far enough and was just getting way over powered, What do you guys think? The more explenations the better
Thanks